Venancio Flores

Venancio Flores Barrios (18 May 1808-19 February 1868) was President of Uruguay from 25 September 1853 to 10 September 1855 (succeeding Juan Francisco Giro and preceding Manuel Basilio Bustamante) and from 20 February 1865 to 15 February 1868 (succeeding Tomas Villalba and preceding Pedro Varela). He was a member of the Colorado Party of Uruguay.

Biography
Venancio Flores Barrios was born in Trinidad, Uruguay on 18 May 1808, and he fought in the Cisplatine War before becoming the Colorado Party of Uruguay chief in San Jose in 1839. He later fought in the Uruguayan Civil War, and, in 1853, he, Fructuoso Rivera, and Juan Antonio Lavalleja formed a triumvirate to rule the country following Juan Francisco Giro's overthrow in a military mutiny. Flores became President in his own right after the dissolution of the triumvirate in 1854, but, in 1855, Luis Lamas launched a conservative revolution against the Colorados and claimed the presidency for himself. Flores resigned on 10 September 1855, and the revolutionaries accepted the interim president Manuel Basilio Bustamante as the new head of state. In 1865, he returned to the presidency after launching a Brazilian and Argentine-backed revolution against the National Party of Uruguay president Tomas Villalba, but he was forced to step down in February 1868 and was assassinated four days later amid the Civil War.